[Petition for royal recognition of the petitioner's nobility status].
Contributors: Larios, Juan, fl. 1575.
Published: 1599
Language: spa
Number of pages: 67
Subjects: Larios family.; Nobility -- Mexico -- History -- Sources.; Nobility -- Mexico -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Manuscripts, Mexican.; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540 -- Sources.; Guatemala -- History -- To 1821 -- Sources.; Central America -- History -- To 1821 -- Sources.
Other titles: Conquest of Guatemala and Mexico, heraldic manuscript.; Mexican heraldic manuscript of the Larios family.
Notes: Ms.
Dealer's title: Conquest of Guatemala and Mexico, heraldic manuscript. Title on protective box: Mexican heraldic manuscript of the Larios family.
Text begins: En la muy noble y muy real ciudad de Mexico ...
Ornate copy of the petition filed by Esteban de Contreras with the royal representative in Mexico City in 1600; based on the participation of the petitioner's in-laws in the Spanish Conquest, the petition includes texts of documents produced at an earlier time by his wife's cousin Juan Larios and others when they were filing similar petitions on their own behalf in Guatemala.
Purchased by LC Sept. 29, 1993.
Copy made in Mexico City, perhaps entirely (except for signatures of certifying notaries) by one scribe (Juan de Castillo); dated 1604.
Included at end (leaves [68a-69a]) is a copy of the royal decree of 1573 which granted the status of nobility to participants in the Conquest; copy written by Pedro de Campos and certified in 1599.
Supplied by dealer in a box containing also parts of the original binding not used in restoration, including 10 leaves of an early printed Latin commentary on Justinian's Codex.